“…In drei thematischen Schwerpunkten kommen zunächst die Person Calvins und ihre Einflüsse in West- und Osteuropa zur Sprache, sodann die durch Vertreibung, Exil und Neuaufbau geprägte Wirklichkeit des frühneuzeitlichen Calvinismus und schließlich die in einer spezifischen Spiritualität und deren »Medien« Gestalt gewinnende geistige Kraft des Calvinismus. …”

“…It is also an important addition to studies of the impact of the West and the emergence of nationalism in Asia as a whole during the period of World War I. …”

“…To support his view of the issues at stake in current theoretical debates, Krieger surveys both the history of American criticism and the general history of literary theory in the West. He sees divisions in each of them that foreshadow the current debates: in the first a conflict between the social and the aesthetic functions of literature, and in the second a conflict between the treatment of literature as a reflection of a culture's ideology and the treatment of literature as a subversion of that ideology. …”

“…From Jonathan Edwards to Cornel West, the text threads the history of American thought into an extended, multivalent encounter with the religious experience. …”

“…"This book arises from parklands, culture and communities, a project which looks at how cultural diversity shapes people's understandings and use of the Georges River and green spaces in Sydney's south west. Culturally diverse uses and views have not often been recognised in Australia in park and green space management models, which tend to be based on Anglo-Celtic 'norms' about nature and recreation. …”

“…Trumpism represents an alternative to the forces undermining the very cosmology of the modern West from two opposing directions. The global economy, pinnacle of modernization, has brought along a dark side of massive inequality, corrupt institutions, colonial violence, and environmental destruction, while global warming, nadir of modernity, threatens to undo the foundations of all states and all markets. …”

“…British and U.S. counterinsurgency (COIN) operations have been slow to respond and adapt to the rise of the global jihadist insurgency, whose base of support is global and whose exploitation of the virtual dimension has outstripped the West's. After analy…”

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“…JavaScript is a flexible, dynamically typed language that supports both object-oriented and functional programming.But mastering JavaScript can present a challenge to developers who started with classical object-oriented languages like Java, C++, or C#, as they quickly find themselves in the Wild West Land of dynamic programming. Why learn JavaScript? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Learning About Campus Life from Black Engineering Majors -- Studying Black Campus Life through Social Worlds -- Racial Realities on Campus -- Examining Two Crises -- Project Description -- Studying Black Student Life -- Thinking with Theories -- Using Pierre Bourdieu's Theory of Practice -- Critical Race Theory -- Making Black Lives Matter in Research -- The Organization of Black Campus Life -- Chapter 2 Understanding the Past and Present of West Side University -- Campus Life and Shifting Campus Color Lines -- The History of Caldwell School of Engineering -- When WSU Engineers Were White and Asian Men -- The Short History of Black People in Engineering at WSU -- Diversity and Caldwell -- Introducing Four Social Worlds and Four Students -- The Black WSU Social World -- The Black Engineering Social World -- The Engineering School Social World -- The Mainstream WSU Social World -- The Black Community -- Chapter 3 The Time and Space to Engage in the Black Community -- Black Places on Campus -- The Black Community and a Sense of Place -- The Stoop -- Engaging in the Black Community -- Tensions between Collective and Individual Interests -- The Midnight Brunch -- The Black Community Social World: In Summary -- Centering Black Campus Communities -- Chapter 4 Johnson's Story -- The Black Community -- The Black Engineering Community -- The Engineering School Community -- The Mainstream WSU Community -- The Black Engineering Community -- Chapter 5 Examining NSBE: How Black Engineers Do It for the Culture -- The NSBE Community at a Glance -- NSBE Structure -- Tension between the Engagement and Burdens of Being an NSBE Member -- The Potential Burdens -- Tension between Strategic Essentialism and Antiessentialism -- Tension between a Family Focus and an Engineering Career Focus -- Brown Sugar. -- The Black Engineering Social World: In Summary -- Chapter 6 Jasmine's Story -- The Black Engineering Community -- The Black Community -- The Engineering School Community -- The Mainstream WSU Community -- The Engineering School Community -- Chapter 7 Organizational Involvement: Diversity Dilution and Antiblackness -- Caldwell at a Glance -- Different Majors, Different Experiences -- The Caldwell Racial Climate -- The Tension between Diversity and Invisibility -- Experiencing Hypervisibility -- Experiencing Institutional Invisibility -- The Multicultural Engineering Office and Diversity Dilution -- The Tension between Membership in NSBE and Other Engineering Organizations -- Identity‐based Engineering Organizations -- NSBE and SWE -- NSBE and SHPE -- Engineering Societies -- Caldwell Organizational Involvement: In Summary -- Chapter 8 Informal Relationships: The (Im)Possibility of Peer Collaboration -- The Tension between Group Work and Being the Only One -- The Importance of Groups -- Forming Study Groups and Working Alone -- Cheating and Collaboration in Caldwell -- Tension between Expecting and Experiencing Racism -- Study Days -- The Caldwell Social World: In Summary -- The Boundary of Antiblackness -- Chapter 9 Nina's Story -- The Engineering School and Black Engineering Community -- The Black Community -- The Mainstream WSU Community -- Chapter 10 Negotiating Racism: Is Mainstream Campus Life for White Students? …”

“…In recent years, growth has been largely driven by the industrial catch-up of Anatolian regions, although the Marmara area in the West has also been very dynamic. In the process, labour force participation has started to rise anew, but around one third of new low-skilled jobs have been created in the informal sector. …”

“…This shifting weight of global economic activity from "the West" to "East and South" is referred to as "shifting wealth". …”

“…Cardiovascular disease is the main cause of death in the West, and vascular disease is the most common cardiovascular clinical problem. …”